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Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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  • Dell's IaaS Cloud Offering Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Dell’s IaaS Cloud Offering Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization

    Dell Services Federal Government has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud to public sector customers. FedRAMP JAB granted the Dell Cloud for US Government platform a moderate impact level P-ATO on Thursday. DCG is designed for federal, state, local and tribal agencies as well as higher education organizations, government […] More

  • Deltek: 2017 Federal Budget Presents Opportunity for Cyber, R&D, Health IT Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: 2017 Federal Budget Presents Opportunity for Cyber, R&D, Health IT Vendors

    Deltek estimates contractor-addressable spending on the U.S. government’s mission-critical programs will increase by $18 billion to about $682 billion in fiscal year 2017 if Congress approves the White House’s latest budget request. The company’s “FY 2017 Federal Budget Request: Challenges and Opportunities” report examines potential business opportunities the $1.14 trillion discretionary spending plan offers to the GovCon sector, Deltek said Thursday. The report forecasts […] More

  • Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Office Seeks Cyber Info Assurance Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Senate’s Sergeant-at-Arms Office Seeks Cyber Info Assurance Provider

    The U.S. Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms is looking for a contractor to help secure enterprise data, information technology resources and network infrastructure in the legislative branch’s upper chamber. In a notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps, the Senate’s SSA office seeks a provider of  information assurance operations services that will complement activities at the Senate’s Cyber Threat and Intelligence Cell […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Conducts Sea Trials of Navy Amphibious Transport Dock - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Conducts Sea Trials of Navy Amphibious Transport Dock

    An amphibious transport dock that Huntington Ingalls Industries designed and built for the U.S. Navy has completed a series of builder’s tests in the Gulf of Mexico. HII said March 7 its Ingalls Shipbuilding division performed more than 200 test events on the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) during at-sea trials that lasted for four days. The ship is the 10th […] More

  • Govini's Eric Gillespie: Federal Spending Poised for Rebound, Vendor Services Demand Remains Steady - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini’s Eric Gillespie: Federal Spending Poised for Rebound, Vendor Services Demand Remains Steady

    A Govini report has shown that contract obligations by half of 24 federal agencies increased during fiscal year 2015 despite a two-percent decline in overall agency spending. “Spending may have decreased relative to the last two years, but we see signs of a rebound, or spending stabilization, as agency funding solidified,” Eric Gillespie, Govini founder and CEO, said Friday. […] More

  • HumanTouch to Support CDC, FDA Through New Atlanta Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HumanTouch to Support CDC, FDA Through New Atlanta Office

    HumanTouch has established an office in Atlanta, Georgia to provide help desk and information technology support services to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The company said Monday it will support health IT operations of both the FDA and CDC from the company office as part of two federal contracts the company holds positions […] More

  • Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Explores Potential Sources of Enterprise IT Modernization Support

    The U.S. Coast Guard has launched market research on the availability of commercial technology and service offerings to support the maritime security agency’s information technology modernization effort. In a notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps, the Coast Guard said it will hold a vendor information session in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 26 to discuss program objectives and critical […] More

  • Malaysia Picks Thales-Built UAS to Support Maritime Surveillance Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Malaysia Picks Thales-Built UAS to Support Maritime Surveillance Missions

    Thales has secured a contract from a Malaysian maritime agency to build fixed-wing unmanned aerial systems for Malaysia’s coastal surveillance program. The company said Friday it will deliver and deploy Fulmar drones on six New Generation Patrol Crafts in an effort to help the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency to conduct border surveillance, anti-smuggling, fisheries policing and counter-piracy operations. Fulmar UAS is designed to take […] More

  • HPE's Earl Matthews: Leadership, Culture Key for Public-Sector Cybersecurity Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Earl Matthews: Leadership, Culture Key for Public-Sector Cybersecurity Programs

    Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has said agencies and companies should create a workplace culture that will encourage employees to be more aware of cybersecurity risks at the organizations, GCN reported Wednesday. Derek Major writes Matthews, VP of enterprise security solutions for HPE’s U.S. public sector business, told FireEye‘s Insider Threat Summit Tuesday he believes that a cybersecurity […] More

  • Deloitte: US Aerospace, Defense Exports Hit $143B During 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte: US Aerospace, Defense Exports Hit $143B During 2015

    A Deloitte report has shown that gross U.S. aerospace and defense exports amounted to $143.3 billion in 2015 to register a 58.9-percent increase over five years. The company said Wednesday it found during a study the A&D industry accounted for 9.5 percent of U.S. export sales last year, compared with 7.1 percent five years ago. China, the […] More

  • Bill Vincent: Naval Research Lab to Help DARPA Build Robotic Satellite Servicer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Vincent: Naval Research Lab to Help DARPA Build Robotic Satellite Servicer

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with the Naval Research Laboratory to build and evaluate payload technology for DARPA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites initiative. NRL’s Naval Center for Space Technology will act as the lead payload developer for the RSGS program that aims to facilitate autonomous inspection, repositioning, repair and maintenance of satellites in orbit, the laboratory said Monday. A team of […] More

  • Alfresco Releases New Records Mgmt Platform for Govt Clients; Austin Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alfresco Releases New Records Mgmt Platform for Govt Clients; Austin Adams Comments

    Alfresco Software has updated its records management platform offering in an effort to help customer agencies simplify and secure access to classified information. The Records Management 2.4 module is designed to allow government users to view content that is classified up to the security level they have been cleared to access, Alfresco said Wednesday. The company developed the […] More